Campaigning for higher health and safety standards at work, and opposing the employers' shortcuts
RMT Upfront is the newsletter for London Underground train drivers, produced by the RMT activists.
This edition focuses on health & safety issues:
Please download the attached newsletter to read more, and print, display and distribute it in your train crew accommodation.
Whilst the company believes wearing a pink hi vis contributes something to customer service, in this hot and humid weather it can in fact contribute detrimentally to your health, safety and wellbeing.
Knowing your rights as a worker is vital!
The Health and Safety at Work Act, The Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regulations, and The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations protect workers against employers who
put your safety at risk.
It’s a big game tomorrow and a big challenge for our network. Station staff are crucial to the safe management of stations, this of course includes platforms. The PTI (platform train interface) is the most dangerous part of a station environment and an accident at the PTI can have fatal consequences.
- Download the attached newsletter from RMT H&S. Tier 2 to learn more.
Staff our Stations - RMT Regional Campaign Meetings - Register Now!
To: All RMT Station Grades members in rail, London Underground and metro
Dear Colleague,
Your Union has long campaigned against attempts by Government and train companies to cut station staffing, close ticket offices and casualise the workforce under the Staff our Stations campaign. Whilst the threats to station grades, of course, pre-date Covid-19, it is clear that Government and companies are attempting to use the pandemic to attack station grades jobs, pay and conditions.
The attached newsletter has been produced by RMT women activists. It lists demands for a safe workplace and includes reports from LU activists.
Please download it to learn more and distribute it in your TfL / LU workplace.
RMT Upfront H&S contains all the latest health and safety news for London Underground train drivers.
In this edition:
Management waking up to fatigue concerns
Bond Street CCTV trial creates more problems than it solves
Lateral Flow testing for Stock Training
Please download the attached newsletter for the latest information.
Dear Colleague
BOND STREET CCTV TRIAL
Your RMT National Executive Committee (NEC) met on 13th April 2021 to discuss the following resolution from RMT Jubilee South Branch:
This branch is very concerned about the unsafe PTI CCTV operating at Bond Street Southbound platform. London Underground is running a ‘trial’ of new cameras with three sectors per monitor. These images are much smaller than what was previously shown on our in-cab monitors, which are already the smallest monitors on the network.
ABYSMAL AS USUAL. Some AMs are endangering our members’ health and safety by trying to tear up the Covid working arrangements on stations without consultation with our reps.
For more than a year the RMT has sought to keep our members safe at work whilst still delivering a service during the pandemic.
London Underground have announced their decision to implement a month long trial of new in-cab monitor images showing six segments at Bond Street Southbound platform. RMT reps objected strenuously to this idea. We believe London Underground’s plan increases risk and is worse than we had before at Bond Street. Management refused to consider our concerns and have pushed ahead with their plans to implement these changes and announced that Finchley Road southbound is next.
Following the companies recent response to RMT reps raising concerns about CEV and CV staff returning to the workplace, your regional organiser has written to the company making it clear that we reject their position and believe it is unsafe.